About the Authors

Sibele Fausto

sifausto@usp.br

Affiliation Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Fabio A. Machado

Affiliation Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Luiz Fernando J. Bento

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Atila Iamarino

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Tatiana R. Nahas

Affiliation São Paulo, Brazil

David S. Munger

Affiliation New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF LB AI TRN DM. Performed the experiments: SF LB AI DM. Analyzed the data: SF LB AI DM FAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF LB AI. Wrote the paper: SF LB AI TRN DM FAM.